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tend them?
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i a good week for Homecoming.
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ving Saturday against Vanderbilt
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iccurrence of fall break, but there
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over the world loved Diana's, I was sti
f her too much. We my column in hon
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0 buy snap up any article me ?naturally. I
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too eager to watch and on the news 1
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move, whether it be omnipresent and s
from a health spa vanish.
to India to a cruise I was young wl
London. the scene, but I rei
be general public's morbid desire march down the
iidy Princess Di under a hot predicted wedde
scope helped fuel the economics Charles,
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ledia as soon as she joined the had the look of mj
family. It never ceased and Cinderella doll: ca
lossibly a contributing factor
r death.
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n the late Princess, we hardly I ? ^1 _ J.
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iparazzi of killing her. If photos
incess Di didn't bring in any
sy, paparazzi wouldn't exist.
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igraphers. After all, who has C0lt
buying the tabloids that run
pictures? The public. Fm not perfect.
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Fm mortal.
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ring about this week's Like millions, she had me transfixed.
Princess Diana looked to be living
0 be about those big, the perfect life. Her husband was adoring
1 that are the cause of she had some of the most beautiful
its on the interstate children in the world. She lived in
t was on Thursday. Buckingham Palace, and basically, the
, I had found a few world was hers to have. I wanted to
; my opinion and was grow up and b6 her. Could one chose to
! column on Monday, hve a better life than that of a princess? j
by Sunday, my topic Soon enough, I realized that perhaps j
rincess Diana. her life wasn't that easy, this coming to ]
ously) I wasn't a close light with her divorce, suicide attempts <
member of Princess and battle with an eating disorder. The <
11 compelled to write bizarre love affair between Charles and
or of her. Camilla was even more of a blow for me ]
i a numbing shock to to comprehend. Why would Charles {
suppose I was so used want to leave beautiful Diana for, well, j
of her in magazines Camilla? 1
hat I never thought Diana bounced back from the worst
ilebrities like her are of all her problems to live a life I thought t
ppm lilrp thevll nwer suited her: She was savin? the world t
and charming its people. t
tien Diana burst onto Some royals tend to dedicate t
nember watching her themselves to pet projects that really f
isle to her wrongly have no viable impact on modern day \
d bliss with Prince life (ie. Prince Charles with his wateroolor
paintings; Princess Anne with her horses; s
3t like a doll come to Prince Edward with whatever he does), i
as in my mind. She but Diana slightly tailored that image. (
r Madame Alexander Her active participation in raising c
lm, regal and always money for AIDS charities was really (
ference key to li
I'm standing in line for pancakes, when
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"t""81 "We're closed."
By the reaction of the crowd, you
, , _ would have thought he said, "Take off
1116 your clothes." People were sucking their
.. , teeth, whispering profanes under their
real y on avea breath and planning which ocean shore
is smirk, promise, ^ ^ ^ ^ wasb Up on I began
ure I have. The same . . rt bed
Sveryphoto. g?H^just bemuse he's got a chef tot
aumble m important 0I1) ^ ^ ap^ and jg standing behind
ich as trying to pick a jg flipping pancakes for those ^
d of clearly saying, wb0 were in line earlier, and has a really,
mutter, "Hey, whuz really big spatula, and you're really,
arrassing). really hungry, and even though this is
le biggest sign of my the line for breakfast, it doesn't mean P
lankering to wear be has to serve you and make you ^
n this boxer-short- breakfast!" I wanted to shout. But, I c
7m sorry, I find them didn't because I thought this little outburst
would have compromised my spot in w
rt is that these petty bne. a
r me. I have a good Still, I was in awe of these people. I w
in it comes to looking can't believe that people think everything P
tiing at myself after is set up to serve them. Don't they realize a
that these cooks may have better things ^
n, and I never have to do, like trade recipes, have onion
n. cutting contests or find dead rats to put ^
e wandered around in the golosh? The nerve,
i many people who But the attitudes are not confined ^
se of indifference. It to the cafeteria. These attitudes show ?
one gets mad and up everywhere, especially in dorm lobbies
simplest things, and where students have to sign their guests
a
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ople who complain. Fm talking about those people with b
g. little badges on their shirts saying, "DA ^
ie examples for you. = God," who think they can just stop and a
in line for breakfast ask us to (can you believe this) wait, just
s alir^t 10:30 a.m., because the university has some rales ^
lo longer served. So, saying, "D.A.'s have to harass anyone
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belter team, and we will prove i
t, on the team's defeat by Arizona
id the wor
"Diana was no saint, ant
trying to canonize nei
Simply, I was one of the m;
nated by her life and r
by how she li\
admirable, as was her work with land C
nines. She was always tending to those her p
[ess fortunate than her, which is was t
something we "common" folk sometimes I
lon't even do. blam
Diana was no saint, and Fm certainly was 1
lot trying to canonize her as one either, becau
Simply, I was one of the many who was has it
ascinated by her life and more fascinated that t
jy how she lived it. speec
Thanks to the "paparazzi," I was able Ti
? follow her every move. While in line to so
it the grocery store, I could have read I find
sabloids showing pictures of Diana in now,
he gym working out, or I could have thing
bllowed every aspect of her relationship R
vith Dodi Fayed. as the
Ah, the paparazzi. They were Diana's dowr
shadow, encasing her wherever she was diam
>r planned to be. They claim they were SI
>nly stalking Diana to meet the demands in the
)f her public, who wanted to know some
jverything about her. that i
sappy freshr
"/t seems that everyon
complains over the simp]
makes me sick. I can't s
complain. They're s<
lat walks through the door, including dead,
tarry Manilow." respe<
We don't have to time to wait. We Ai
ave stuff to do, like watching other me) i
eople who know what their doing so funds
re can try and mimic them. It takes a poun<
)t of time. sound
And then, not only do we have to Hugo
'ait, but we have to open our wallets would
nd take out our ID cards and close our W
'allets, and then put it back in our you dc
ockets, and after doing all this grueling, to shcr
gonizing, arduous work, we have to Somel
ick up a pen and sign our names. What Ar
ind of ludicrous standard is this? are so
And, if we ask one silly question like, be pei
iVhy do we have to do all this stupid them,
rap?" they jump down our throats and If 1
egin to beat us unconscious with the to con
piest sign-in" book. Some people. baby i
The worst is neighbors. You'd think W<
bunch of guys the same age, doing collegi
[most the same thing, living in a dorm it!"
all, would be cool with "Black Dog" by Ar
ed Zeppelin rocking full blast at 3:30 . Ip
m. to hav
But noooooooo! It's, "Turn that^jff! raised
fe're trying to sleep!" or, "John Bonham's Lazy 1
y
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it on down the road."
Id over
1 I'm certainly not
r as one either,
any who were fascinore
fascinated
ed it."
ritics say they were intruding on
rivacy. They also say the paparazzi
;he cause of Diana's death,
really don't know who or what to
e in Diana's death. Sure, maybe it
the paparazzi, or maybe it was
ise tne cnauneur was arunK. itumor
; she wasn't wearing a seat belt and
he car was going some unbelievable
L
here are so many things pointing
many different explanations that
1 it hard to pinpoint blame. Right
I really don't want to blame one
' or person for Diana's death,
ather, I'd prefer to remember her
; young, beautiful bride who walked
i the isle in her ivory dress and
ond tiara.
he was a true fairly tale princess
3 purest sense of the title, and for
reason, I know she'll always retain
mage ? in her life and in her death.
nen life
i
e gets mad and
lest things, and it
tand people who
o annoying."
leave it that way!" I tell ya, no
;t.
id then when a person (namely
s working on his drumming
imentals (this consists of me
ling anything that will make a
until my sticks look like Hurricane
remnants), you'd think people
just let you be.
rong. People are always like, "If
>n't stop that drumming, Fm going
ve those sticks up your left nostril!"
times they opt for the right,
lyway, it's just sad to see people
naive. They expect everything to
rfect and work out just right for *
they don't get their way, they begin
iplain and whine and do all that
stuff.
ill, all I've got to say is, You re in
e now, so grow up and deal with
lyway, that's it,
ut in a work order a long time ago
e my bed raised and it hasn't been (
yet, so r? going to go complair^
ilockheads.